From the February 2010 issue of AA Grapevine:
Say No To Nothing
A German 'recluse' bursts out of her shell at ICYPAA 51
As I entered the hotel lobby,
I looked up at the massive 60 floors and thought,
Wow, I wonder if I'll ever
run into a drunk who could
tell me where I can find a
meeting. I set down my bags, went
out for a smoke, and was kidnapped
by ICYPAA old-timers. I got back
about 13 hours later with two other
AAs who crashed in my bed. After
two hours of sleep, I jumped out of
bed and yearned for more. That was
two days before the conference actually started. I was completely unaware that even with jet-lag, I would
total six hours of sleep in five days,
and that a day later the hotel would
be shut down by ICYPAA's massive
crowd. There were countless people
walking up to the hotel to look inside and say, "What's going on in
there, can we come in?"
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i-Poll: Do you go (or have you gone) to YPAA events?
From the Digital Archive - September 01 1985
MOST PEOPLE I've met have heard some variation of Murphy's law. In my drinking days, it was the common excuse for anything that went wrong. Simply stated, it: says that if there is anything that can go wrong with a project, it will. A variation is that everything takes twice as long as you originally estimated.
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From the Digital Archive — March 1962
My Empathetic God
THE terms "God" and "Power Greater Than Ourselves" irked and bewildered me when I came to AA. Yet I quickly got sober and have increasingly enjoyed sobriety ever since. I believe now that, although rejecting the words, I was accepting and acting on the conception almost from the start. If you are a scientifically oriented rationalist (pronounced "intellectual snob") like me, you may be interested in how a resolution of this apparent paradox came about.
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From the Digital Archive — December 1969
Tradition Two: Second Tradition Checklist
SHORTLY after I returned to the office from lunch, the phone on my desk rang. It was a late autumn day during my first sober AA year.
"Did you know J------B ------ got drunk?" asked the AA acquaintance on the line.
Such momentous news overwhelmed me. J ------ was the chairman of our group. I had considered him Mr. AA himself. Now I felt that the whole movement would soon totter under this disastrous blow, unless someone rushed to the rescue. A brilliant new leader would have to be found, quickly.
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